The games take place at Enigma Room, one of the Italian city’s most popular escape rooms and one of the country’s first escape rooms.
Up to 50 people can play at once, and participants can sign up individually or in groups.
However, players must be aged 16 or over.
Over the course of two hours, contestants face six games – many of which feature in the original show, such as the tug-of-war and ‘Red Light Green Light’.
Participants are picked up by “pink soldiers” at meeting points and taken blindfolded in vans.
They are then divided into teams and compete against each other to earn points.
In this organised events, costing participants €25 to enter, guards shoot plastic pellets at the losers.
Participants wear masks to protect their faces, along with a t-shirt adorned with an identifying number.
After the outdoor games they are taken inside a restaurant, where they can relax with some food.
But those who make a mistake in carving a shape into the honeycomb biscuit (otherwise known as ‘Dalgona’) face immediate elimination.
The prize in not quite the 45.6 billion won offered in the show.
The winner instead gets free entry to one of the company’s escape rooms.
Directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk, Squid Game became Netflix’s most popular series at launch, drawing at least 111 million viewers into its dystopian nightmare.
